From Designing Destinations to Developing Leaders with Kimberly Trueba, CEO, Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada & former Disney Imagineer

Kimberly Trueba has built a career around one core idea: the environments we create shape how people think, feel, and lead.Today, she is the CEO of Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada. Before that, she spent more than a decade at Walt Disney Imagineering, then went on to build a design firm working on hospitality and lifestyle projects around the world.In this episode of Risky Routes, Kimberly shares how those experiences shaped her approach to leadership, decision-making, creativity, and risk.We talk about the question that helped open the door to Disney, what she learned from working alongside world-class architects and designers, and why some of her most valuable leadership lessons came from simply observing people and understanding how they experience a space.Kimberly also shares how working across different countries and cultures expanded the way she thinks about experience design, why curiosity remains one of the most important qualities for any leader, and how she carried those lessons into her work with Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada.We also get into confidence, taking calculated risks, building a personal board of directors, creating opportunities for the next generation, and why exposure to new people, places, and experiences can fundamentally expand what someone believes is possible.It’s a conversation about leadership, creativity, and the experiences that shape the way we see the world.